Nghe An: There will be new, more attractive investment attraction policies

(Baonghean.vn) - Continuing to examine reports, submissions and draft resolutions submitted to the second session of the 18th Provincial People's Council, term 2016 - 2021, on the afternoon of July 19, the Economic - Budget Committee of the Provincial People's Council examined a number of contents in the economic - budgetary field.

Comrade Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Party Inspection Committee, Head of the Economic - Budget Committee chaired the inspection.

Also attending were comrades Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Cao Thi Hien - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Dinh Viet Hong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; representatives of a number of departments, branches and members of the Committee.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council noted the conversion of land use purposes and land recovery for coastal projects, border areas, hydropower projects, and projects with rice growing land areas.

It is necessary to protect rice growing areas to ensure food security and sustainable social security.

Examining the submission and draft Resolution on converting the purpose of using rice-growing land, protective forest land, and special-use forest land to implement projects in Nghe An; the draft Resolution on land recovery to implement works and projects in the province, delegates requested the Department of Natural Resources and Environment - the agency drafting the document to clarify the legal basis and purpose of land recovery to implement 240 works and projects.

At the same time, the required implementation time for each project must be added, ensuring compliance with the land use planning approved by competent authorities. Some delegates also said that it is necessary to consider, weigh, and assess the conditions for coastal works and projects, border communes and towns; rice land recovery projects, hydropower projects, etc.

Comrade Cao Thi Hien - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council said that rice growing areas need to be protected to ensure food security.

Comrade Dinh Viet Hong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee clarified issues of concern to delegates related to projects using rice-growing land, coastal projects, and border areas.

Concluding this content, comrade Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Party Inspection Committee, Head of the Economic - Budget Committee, said that the projects and works that need to change land use purposes and reclaim land must be in the list of projects and investment works approved by the Provincial People's Council.

At the same time, the works and projects must serve the people's living needs, the socio-economic development of the province and each locality. Comrade Le Hong Vinh also requested the Provincial People's Committee and sectors to review and re-evaluate projects and works using rice fields, coastal projects, border areas, hydropower projects, ensuring both economic development and social security, sustainable development. At the same time, the Provincial People's Committee and sectors and localities need to encourage enterprises to invest in industrial parks and industrial clusters, in order to limit the conversion of land use purposes and land recovery.

Comrade Le Hong Vinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Party Inspection Committee, Head of the Economic - Budget Committee of the Provincial People's Council concluded at the conference.

Pay attention to consider and carefully evaluate the conversion of purposes and land recovery for projects implemented in coastal areas.

Regarding the draft report and Resolution on a number of investment support policies in the province, members of the Economic - Budget Committee highly agreed with the support policy submitted by the Provincial People's Committee. The noteworthy thing about this policy is that it overcomes the shortcomings of previous policies, that is, enterprises enjoy the policy but do not implement it; at the same time, the support level is higher and focuses on prioritizing large projects that employ a lot of labor.

Also this afternoon, the Economic - Budget Committee also examined the draft report and Resolution regulating the collection level of fees for protection and development of rice-growing land in Nghe An province; the draft Resolution approving the project to establish the Fund to support the development of cooperatives in Nghe An province.

Minh Chi